RL.rOIuN.--It fares ivith religion as with a shuttlecock, which is bandied fron one to another, and rests with isone. " The rich ap prehend it to have been designe'd for the poor. and the poor, in their turb, thinkc it calculated chiefly for the iichl

MEMORANDA. In reference to the inquiry lost week by our correspondent "' Jones," as to the collec tion of. rates in St, Kilda, we may state that ve hav'e 'reason to believe the alteration he refers to has been caused by a doubt having been raised as to borough councils having legal power to sue for a year's rates, unless the rate has been levied as a whole. The question is still unsettled, and therefore most oouncils are this year 'claiming the year's rates entire, We believe, hlowever, that arangements have been made by some tare ceive the rate in two instalments, the first on account-so that the .convenience of rate payers will be considered, without prejudicing the legal rights of the borough, To-morrow evening, at the Congregational Church, Commerucial-road, the Rev. iVm. Moss, will.proach a sermon on the "Loss of the aondon?' On Thursday next, at the Town Hall, -Prnhran, . grand amiateur concert will be giveon in .aid of the building fund of the Windsor Congregational Church. M...

LIVEABLE PIEOPLE. Everybody who has ever bden under a measter or engaged by an employer, every body who has ever been a member of a household or a family, must have a ready conception of the quality--liveableness. It ,nay be slid to express the wliole range of those peculiarities of hear't and I of manners which are, required to make! association tolerable. Many men and lwomel are of irre proachable character in all the great essentials, yet are not liveable people. MaDay are doubt ful, or more than doubtful, id these respects, and yet are eminently liveable people. Per haps, it mrty even be said that extreme ' cor rectness' is somewhat inconsistent with live ableness; while, on the other hand, failings and faults, within a certain limit are necessary for it. We mean to say that ':the faultless monster whom the world ne'erl saw,' would necessarily be an eminently unliveable person; because, this, is how. we suppose it is -when a person has succeeded in trampling out all the fires of...

CORR P PONDENOE. ^ THE W AR1tD QUE3STION. "i t(Ao IEditor of the Tc'reyrpih. Sir,-,Alhlogh yom' humble servyant has po tillth in thle ''! tri'1f," n1i is not by anyv tniaps in liiv. with what is culled " protection iq" uative industry," yet I alppreciate the ad 'yiotlige of havxig a racy and attractive local pniper to scan ov'er occasionally, and such thue 7eleqreph, of last Saturday renlly was; con spquently I mnst in future modify my views, ind swear by niltive industry, as displayed in the columns of the Telegraph. We ihad a letter in the previous nutnber from a "James Scott," mn which the writer tries to show how great an ass he is, and fortu nately lie succeedled, as the editqr was too ill to bridle. him., But ".poor Scott's" produc tion was nothinig to the combined fury of Mr. Campbell I and somebody else. Your porrespondent must he the greatest ass of the lot, for he cannot for the life of him under stand vlhat you are all so mad about. After reading the '' leader" and Mr. Oa...

ESSAY. I Cia:OArovn. Candour teaches us to make every allow nce to others. It enjoins the necessity of a great degree of attention and penetration to discover the humble excellence and secret in fluenoe of virtue. It convinces us that ractions are often far different from what they appear to be, and that reason and justice re quire us to be very diffident of our judgments. United with charity, it gladly cherishes the hope that, if we were able to look into the heart we might find reason togive credit for the existence of much good. It must be conlessed. however, that it is impossible to.think well of everybody. This disposition is sometimes found in those who ire just entering into life-who know not how so suspect any insincerity in words, or bad lesigns in actions. But belonging only to youth and inexperience, it does .n'ot last long. A little knowledge of mankind destroys tihe pleasing allusions, and shows a world far different.firom what the imagination of'an .in nocent and benev...

To thI Editor of thi Tete3raph. I . Si,--Your scathing rebuke tb the notable wo 'ould-be councillor or tow~i clerk of rejected * otoriety is not more cutting than just. It is :notorious that the vulgar spleen of tilis can didate for municipal honours .hs at all tities been min opposition to .those persons: who ~ponduct thnemselves and their businese by .the ptrict rules of propriety; hence his display Pcaf:a malignant" propensity to attacol' any one -.vhom he hhas ranson to' heliev is 'precluded y Y' sense o'f 'propriety. froi 'replying to t5hB : poaardly attacks.' - . . :, : ' As a; vaitcdcywill' be afforded for tle elec ion .of a,mrmber to the borogsi csnhocil ithin.. a few weeks,' it ha "already e bee , /ittIe? }at, no nftf~e o may become a cnrtdidate for the vcant. aet, none but a thi ronglh-going, hsin -l-hulsed screw, who will coInswnt to be a tool in the ands of a down w:rd tcndling' cliq)O1, shall be elected, pro vidtd that such clique can possibly get any can didate a tl Il...

MORALIty AND RELIGION.-If we are told a man:lis religiotis, we still' askwhat are his morals i' But if we hear fir•t that his Smorals are honest, and he.is a man of natural justice and good temper,.we seldom think of the other question whether he be religious and devout. ' Prejudice mny be considered asa continual false. medium of viewing things; for reja. Sdiced persops not only never speik well, But/ .:never think well, of those they dislike,' nhd :the whole character or conilduct is considered :with reference to that particular thing Which .ifetnds then;

IUltKE V. THE PRAHRAN AND 'SOU L'H YARRA: SAVINGS BANK. This- case came'on at the County Court, Melbouire, os ,Yednesday 'last. Mr. Allprt eppearet for the plaintiff, and Mr. Bindon for the defendatnt. The- oircumstances which -gave rise to this abtion will doubtless be in tle reco!lection oi rqost' f our readers. In October last police-constal.le Burke, stationed at Pruhran summoned Mr. James Munro, the treasurer of tlie Prabran and South Yarra Savings Bank, before the local bench for illegally detainingi a bank pssobook, wvhich hi valued at. £2, as he alleged tlhat credit was given to tlat amoint for deposits marde by his filmily. Tue. defence on that occasion was that alterations had been made in the book unauthorisedly, and by another or others than the treasurer or bank officials, to the amnount of 24?s. ott of the sum claimed as deposits. Thel beriub, however, dpclined to enter into thea charge of tampering with the figures, and ordered the book to be given up to the complaina...

I DECENT DANCES. [ TO £E LODOSO REVIEW.) •~ b; ' ,?? ,: ,.~o,(o.- ?,:vrw.3 Fathers ail mothers will not, we trat, Ilok on us as puritanical if we think it time to call their attention to a subject in which the interests, of inorality- aie deeply involved, though somb of its aspects have only -la?stely begun to enkage the notice of tile press. It has long been notorious that that species of -in:ertainmeat called the ballet, though as an Snterlude on the lyric stage it is looked ion without comsplaint by sedate and respectable members of society, tends to recruit the ranks of a class whose existence is a pestilent Core, and whose increase is a national dis grace; that rich volilptuaries in many c:ass pupply the funds by which a mannager's iexohequer ip enabled to bear the drain caused iby the exptonsive spectacles in which crosids lof dancing girls appear; and that the patrqns have all the opportunities which the coulis.e8 afford of eaitivating on intimacy with those -whom they may sp...

TiH, POLITICAL DJ?'EIOJLTY. Y Theo Legislative Council have thrown out the Ministerial tariff, anl Ministers have Con sequently resigned. Their resignation has been necceltetd by the Governor. Mr.' M'Culloch informed the Assembly on Thurs day that he and his colleagues only hold office until their successors are appointed. In0 accordance with the usual custom, IIis Ex cellency sent for the lion. Mr. Fellows, the mover of the adversp iamendment in the Council, and devolved oin that gentlenan the_ task of fbrming a Onew Administration. Mr. Hellows prufessed himself as not anxious ofIci undertakin ~ te task hiimnself, and, with the Governor's consent, communicatud with Mr. sl Emnbling, one of the mnembehs, for.Collipgwood, d who, according to the latest :iriformation we ppssess, was engaged in the task of formingn a powY Administration. Theo clances of his succeeding ,ao very pioblematical; but even should he findl a sutfllient -nnmbpr of gentle men willing to assoaiate themselves iyit...

EMIERALD HILL PHILHARMONIC .AND PRAHRAN &amp; SOUTH YARRA. MUSICAL SOCIETIES. We must congratulate the members of the Emerald IIill and the Prahran and South Yarra Musicahl Societies on the success attend. ing their performance of the "Creation" on Thursday evening. There is nothing more disrheartening after taking the immense amountofpaias and trouble necessary to get up a good concert, tjhan to find the benches almost empty. On this occasioni however, it afforded us as much gratification as it must have done .the committee to see the Hall well filled, and by sorespectable an audience. The concert itself was a complete success, and the manner in which the various parts were taken evidence an amount of careful training on the part of the gentleman who has the conductorship of the two societies, alike creditable to himself and thle members. The chorus voices were scarcely equally balanced, the trebles being decidedly weak. ,Ve understand that two or three of the most efficient la...

ST. KILDA COURT. TUESDAY, fARCH 13. Before the Mayor (W. Ford Esq.), T. Baillie, andT. ML'Combie, Esqs. SMALL DEBTS. Augustus ~iIowack v. JToseph Hoymanson; Money lent, '7s. Plaintiff deposed that he had been in defendant's employ, and had lent Mrs. Heymanson the amount claimed, 5s. of which he gave to the female servant for her. Upon his leaving defendant's service, Mrs. Heymanson promised that he should be paid. Defendant, who was not required to make his statemgnt upon oath, denied owing plaintiff more than 2s., and the bench gave a verdict for that amount,: without costs.

TaU??sDAY, MAcI 15. Before thle Mayor (J. Snowball, Esq.), and W. Templeton, Esq., P.M. SMALL DEBTS. Charles FPndle v. Samuel .Jenkinson. Work and labour, 19s. Order for aniount, with Ss. costs.-William Brook v. Henry Hiighland. Money lent, £10. No appear ance of either party.-Sarah Grifliths v. Edmond Ashworth. Work and labour done, 8s. This was a disputed case of wages, and the bench dismissed the ease, on the ground of the complainant not having kept to her nagreement.-Robert Spencer v. H. Walsh. Work and labour, £1 3s. Case dismissed.

A POLITE GRAND JU?ovR.-Standish O'Grady (afterwards Lord Guillamnore) asked O'Connell to accompany him to the play one evening during the Limerick aisszes in 1819. O'Connell declined, observing that the Limerick grand jurors were not the pleasantest folks in'the world to meet after dinner. O'Grady went, 'but very soon returned. "Dan," said ihe, "you were quite right. I had not been five minutes in the box, when some ten or a dozen noisy gentlemen came into it. It was small and crowded, and-as I observed that one of the party had his head close to a peg on which I had hisg:my head, saidvery politely, I hlope, sir, my hat does not incommode ydo; if it does, pray allow me to remove it.' 'l aith;' said he, 'you may be sure it doesn't incommode me: for if it-did, smither me, bilt I'd have kicked it out of the box, andyvourself after it!' So, lest the worthy juror should clihange his mind as to the necessity of siuch vigorous measures, I riiy put my hat on, and took niyself SCiNDER AND SM...

PITH OF -PARlIIAMENT. The Council was the only chamber that met. The preolimnary matter hayIng been disposed of MIr. Miller moved the second reading of the Tariff nill. He satihe spoke under great disadvantage, as the majority of the Council had arrived 'at a foregone conclusion, as to which he was in the dark. The country had approved of the tariff by a large majority, and, as lie understood, hon. mem bers .opposite were pledged to accept the tariff after that decision. He urged upon the Councili thaduty of considering the.matter with a view to the interests of the country, and not rejecting it oen a point of fqrm. He asked if the Opposition were prepared to carry on the Government; if so, let them reject the tariff, and they woult flnd that the country.would inot support them. lIe urgel that there should be at least prompt and decided action. Sir. Jenner seconded. The hon. 'Mr. Fraser sup ported the motion. Tile preamble now contained nothing offensive. He should have liked the go...

SOUTH rI 1E?- L,1OR3J- 100 Wrzorj-ro ---v T RAL SOCI;ETY I An cncouraging attendance of the members of this society was drawn together iii the Hall of the Mephanics' Institute, Prahran, on Tuesday-ovening last, by the announcement I that measures would probably be taken for t the speedy wiedinng up of the society, in con sequence of thie lack of interest its members had lately evinced, in it. W. Clarke, Esq., I of W!lliams-road, presided.. Mr. Lynch,,the secretary, having read the minutes of tel.previous meetings, proceeded to state that if the society was to keep in existence energetic measures must be taken to.ninke the monthly meetings, of greater public interesh and usefidlness, nd urged upon the members that they should prepare papers to be read at these mnthlly meetings, and that theose who did not feel themselves equal to the taskof producing something original, might in th$ course of their horticultural reading meet with information which they conhld, by a little trouble, re...